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The document outlines the syllabus for an environmental engineering course, including what environmental engineering entails, its history and branches, key environmental issues, careers in the field, and the importance of ethics. It discusses applying engineering principles to solve pollution problems and preserve environmental quality. The syllabus also explores sustainable development, water and wastewater treatment, hazardous waste management, and air pollution issues.

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The document outlines the syllabus for an environmental engineering course, including what environmental engineering entails, its history and branches, key environmental issues, careers in the field, and the importance of ethics. It discusses applying engineering principles to solve pollution problems and preserve environmental quality. The syllabus also explores sustainable development, water and wastewater treatment, hazardous waste management, and air pollution issues.

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ENGR 202

Sustainable Development and


Environmental Stewardship

Chapter 1
Course Syllabus

Online Book
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What Is Environmental Engineering?
• Application of engineering principles and
technology …
 To solve and prevent pollution problems,
 To preserve or improve environmental quality

• Concerned with…
 Protection of human health
 Protection of ecosystem
 Improvement of environmental quality

3
Thinking Like an Engineer
• Three-step process:
1. Find out where you are (“A”)
2. Decide on where you want to go (“B”)
3. Figure out the best way to get from “A” to “B”

4
Branches of Environmental
Engineering

C. D. Cooper, page 2 5
History of Environmental Engineering
1971 ECCC (Environment and Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974
1962: Silent Spring Published
Climate Change Canada)
1970: Official Formation of EPA

Clean Water Act of 1972

1969: Cuyahoga
River Fire

1969: First manned mission to Clean Air Act of 1970


the moon
History of Environmental Engineering
1978: Love Canal Disaster 1993:Cryptosporidium Outbreak and
Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule

1976: Resource
1996: Safe Drinking Water Act
Conservation and
Amendment
Recovery Act

1980: Congress creates


Superfund Program
What is environmental engineering?
• Information is key to maintaining a balance between public health
and cost
• Cost analysis • Water quality monitoring
• Pollutant transport modeling • Life cycle analysis
• Health impact studies • Etc.
• Toxicity studies
• Detector, analyzer, and sensors can help provide information for
decision making

Environmental Protection Industry

• Public Health
• Technology • Cost
• Regulations • Feasibility
Environmental Issues to Address
• Water
Required to sustain life (very important
resource for people and environment), but…
Source of many illnesses
Objective/challenge: to produce and supply safe
drinking water
• Wastewater
Contaminated to the degree
that it is no longer beneficial
 needs to be treated before
discharging to the environment 9
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Environmental Issues to Address
• Wastewater
Domestic/municipal, industrial (point sources);
urban and agricultural runoff (non-point
sources)
Objective/challenge: to remove or transform the
various pollutants from wastewater streams 
satisfy effluent quality/standards
• Hazardous and solid wastes
Municipal, agricultural and mining wastes ,
industrial solid wastes (hazardous
(characterized by corrosivity, ignitability,
reactivity, toxicity) and nonhazardous) 10
Environmental Issues to Address
• Hazardous and solid wastes
Objective/challenge: collection, treatment
and disposal of solid and hazardous wastes
• Air pollution
 Principal factors causing air pollution:
 Burning of fossil fuels for energy needs
 Population growth
 Technological changes resulting in new products
 Urbanization (population shift)
 Global issues: acid deposition, ozone https://teknonuz.wordpress.com/tag/air-
depletion, climate change pollution/

Objective/challenge: effective management


and control/prevention of air pollution 11
Careers in Environmental Engineering
• Careers
Design/consulting firms
Government: municipal, state, federal
Industry
Academic
• Graduate school: Masters, Ph.D.
• Read the handout for details

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Careers in Environmental Engineering
• Academic preparation and professional
certification
Bachelor level preparation{[4 year degree from
Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB)
[Accreditation Board for Engineering and
Technology (ABET) in USA] –accredited university}
Professional certification
1. Obtain a 4 year accredited engineering degree
2. Pass the EI exam
3. Obtain 4 years of experience under a P.Eng (PE)
4. Pass the P.Eng exam
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Ethics in Engineering
• Engineering is a “profession” vs. “occupation”
• Professions are regulated by ethical standards
• Codes of ethics
NCEES Rules of Professional conduct
Model Rules:
1. Licensee’s obligation to society
2. Licensee’s obligation to employers and clients
3. Licensee’s obligation to other licensees

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Ethics (1)

Ethical vs. Non-ethical


• Students studying together to help each other learn
• Students working together on a homework
assignment to help each other learn
• One student copying homework from another
• One student peeking onto another’s test paper
during an exam
• Obtaining a term paper from the internet and turning
it in as your own work
Ethics (2)
Ethical vs. Non-ethical
• Spending less time on a project than budgeted
and billing for the total number of hours
budgeted
• Signing and sealing engineering plans done by
someone else who worked under your
supervision
• Signing and sealing engineering plans done by
someone else who did not work under your
supervision
Professionalism
Professional vs. Non-Professional Behavior
• Getting mad and shouting at your subordinates in a
meeting
• Showing up drunk for work
• Telling clients that you are a professional engineer
when you are only a graduate of an engineering
college
• Making assumptions, based on your experience,
when designing a facility

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